Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1887-10-15
WONDERS OF THE WORLD.

Some of tho Astonishing Statements
which Circulate In Newspapers.
Hand painted collins are the latest society
freak III Boston.
Phoebe, Nov, is raising cucumbers three feet
long and ten pounds i'll weight.
1t cost England s., 900 to purchase garter
for the crown prince of Austria.
There is q hickory rockingchair at Hunting
don, Pa, which has been i'll use over ll5 years.
James s. Wethercd, of San Francisco, OWNS
a snuff box nudc of the first lot of gold found
in California i'll lS4S.
Many Of tue citizens of 1ulare, CAL, have
been ,nado seriously i'll by tue bites OF BIZ
black spiders, which have appeared il great
numbers.
A heron, measuring four feet ten inches
from its toes TO the tip Of its bill, WINS shot in
the Stony Greek river in Pennsylvania dny
or two ago.
A man escaped from Rhode Island Jail by
making ropo of newspapers twisted together.
This certainly was demonstrating anew the
powers of tie press.
The rabbits are eating out the ranchers in
Steptoe Valley, White Pine county, New. AT
night they come in whole armies and devour
the growing crops.
A 'cycler who has returned to his home i'll
Maplewood, N. j., after q trip through Eu-
rope and Africa OH his tricycle., says he COW
cred l., 900 miles at an expense of $500.
D. B. Meredith, of Carlisle, Pa-, has in his
possession piece Of bareback which was
ati,
while in front Of Petersburg. 1t is in good
state of preservation, and is great y priced
by him.
In breaking tho ground in O place near
Kiucardinc. Ont, the other day, q skeleton,
which to nll appearance is that of wild
boar, was found All the bones, including
tho tusks and teeth, were in splendid condi-
ton. though it is thought they have been
lying there for 100 or 200 years.
A Tennessee farmer. whose land was under
mortgage and about to DO taken away from
him, fell ON his knees in the field i'll prayer
When he got up he seized the plow with
new grip, gave the old mulo vigorous HEX,
and before he had gone twenty feet ho turned
up jug with over 5000 i'll gold and silver
in it.
The story comes from Salem, Ills, of
flock OF $50 sheep that were owe! taken IN
their pasture by fire. They ut once made for
a knoll i'll the field, and there punched them
selves with the lambs i'll tue middle, und be-
gan moving in n circle, treading ihe weeds
and grass into the dry earth until the fire was
out
1t will be remembered that Cetti, Nor
J.,,-c in, pli NM
der the observation of Professor Virclow. In
June he began another fast of thirty days Tor
scientific purposes During the fast he was
detected eating gelatno jujubes, about a half
pound of which We're found OH his person.
The SON of Mr.. Reno, of Greenbusli, N. Y,
showed great desire for pipe when he saw
his father smoke, and one day it was given to
him and he pulled away happily. Thereafter
he demanded his smoke vociferously, and the
family doctor advised permitting him to sat
isfy his craving for tobacco. Tho boy was
then years DID, Hc has smoked ever since,
and now, at the sge Of II, IS q stalwart,
healthy youth.
A gentleman in London thoughtlessly omit
ted TO remove his cork legs before bathing.
The laws of nature are seldom suspended in
behalf of individuals, and they were not Ill
this case. The gentleman was suspended III
stead In the water the legs at once assumed
n superior position, and maintained the upper
hand OF tile gentleman, so to speak, Ill spite
of his most violent struggles. He would have
been drowned had it not been for timely as
sistance.
A convict night school is to be started in
the New Jersey state prison at Trenton, where
there are $50 prisoners, of whom 40 can
neither read nor write. Convicts who have
been well educated will act as instructors
The school will he in session two hours each
evening, except Saturdays and Sundays.
Turkeys armed with repeating rifles Will be
the monitors, the desperate character OF
many of the convicts rendering it necessary
to take every precaution even on such occa-
sions
a French newspaper reports that in
Subiaco, near Rome, all the inhabitants are
under the influence of epilepsy or hypnotism.
The curate spends his time in exercising the
evil spirits, and Cardinal Blanchi has sent the
pope's special benediction-all without avail.
A troop of soldiers who were sent to the vii
lage have shown symptoms of giving way to
the disease and there is supposed to he SOME
Aing i'll the air affecting the nerves.
The mite of baby recently born to Ida
Stevenson, a mulatto woman in Cairo, Ills,
was found by accurate measurements to have
tho following dimensions: Length from head
to heel, IL inches; length Of foot, 2 inches;
knee to side OF foot, 34 inches; length of
hand. ~ inches; circumference of ankle, ~
inches; length of middle finger, DIG Of ali
inch; circumference of wrist, 1916 Of ai,
inch; chest, SIX inches; weight, ~ pounds.
Tho midget is bright, cries loudly and will
live.
Daniel Rogers, miner near Orc, Arizona,
had both hands blown OF at tho wrist by
premature discharge of giantpowder recently.
He was alone, and he walked two miles to a
deserted cabin, where lie bound up the stumps
of his wrists after q fashion with pieces OF
curtain, which he tore with his teeth He
Travelled all night during which time his
trousers became loose and dropped around his
feet He kicked of his shoes and tie trousers,
and at o'clock was found lying unconscious
near a Mexican cabin. He was taken to
hospital and is getting well.
Mr. A. w. Franks has presented to the
British museum most remarkable coin lately
received from India. 1t is decadrachm of
the Bactrian series, the first ever met with,
and bears Oh the diverse horseman charging
with his lance all elephant, OH whose back are,
two warriors; and OH tie reverse king or
zeus, standing, holding thunderbolt and q
spear; III the field is monogram composed
of the letters ABB. The diverse records some
victory of the Greeks over the barbarians,
and the reverse may be representation of
Alexander tie Great. Tue coin evidently
comes from the district of the Oxus, and was
struck about the middle of the Second century
B. C.
Eclipse of the Sun.
The American expedition which went to
Toxic, Japan, to observe the solar eclipse
which took place on Saturday, appears to
have had reasonable measure Of success, al